Who ever becomes a good rider by talking about horses?
If you wish to embody the Tao,
stop chattering and start practicing.
The Huahujing, attributed to Lao Tzu.
Tag: Life
Coming home to your own truth
You have to start seeing yourself as your truthful friends see you.
As long as you remain blind to your own truth, you keep putting yourself down and referring to everyone else as better, holier, and more loved than you are. You look up to everyone in whom you see goodness, beauty, and love because you do not see any of these qualities in yourself. As a result, you begin leaning on others without realizing that you have everything you need to stand on your own feet.
Henri Nouwen, Inner Voice of Love
Our choices
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control.
Where will I find good and bad?
In me, in my choices.
Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55 – 135
Stop comparing
The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up
until you have become convinced that you’re walking the only path open for you
Kosho Uchiyama, Soto Zen priest, 1912 – 1998
Letting go of the desire to control
We can feel the possibility of balance in our lives,
when we recognize that life is not in our control
Jack Kornfield
Making space
In silence there is eloquence.
Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Rumi
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